Dear Parents, Guardians and Carers,

The staff at St Michael’s had a very productive day yesterday with Tracey Ezard via zoom exploring how we can further develop the collaborative culture at St Michael’s. Feedback has been a key improvement strategy at the school this year and Tracey helped us to work through ways as a staff for making this the most effective it can be. We know having a day so close to the flood event wasn’t ideal but Tracey had been booked since last year. As I shared with the School Advisory Committee at our recent meeting, last year we cancelled a couple of our closure days due to lockdowns and I am conscious that staff need time for professional development that is linked to our strategic plan.

School reports will be sent home this week as will the work the children have completed for their student - led conference. Your child's teacher will email you with some context and prompting questions to get the most of the experience. Unfortunately COVID restrictions have prevented these meetings occurring on site this year.

The Confirmation Masses last week went very well. We thank the Parish Sacrament team, our REL Sue Rickwood and the grade 5/6 teachers for their work behind the scenes to enable this to happen. Congratulations to all the students who received this sacrament.

We hope you all have a chance to spend time together as a family during the school holidays and look forward to seeing you back on Tuesday 13th July.

Kind regards

Jodie